22.7.15
13.7.15
Bonjour, South France Waves!
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| Richard Tuttle, 'Wave', 1969 |
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| Richard Tuttle, ‘Source of Imagery’ series, 1995–2010 |
12.7.15
Salut d'Honneur
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| Ettorre Spalletti, Vaso, Vaso, 1981 / part of this exhibition at Ostend, Belgium: The Sea. Salut D'honneur Jan Hoet. More information here. |
10.7.15
Claes Oldenburg and his London Knees
Claes Oldenburg first proposed London Knees as a "colossal monument" for the city of London. He has spoken of monuments as "objects from contemporary life that seemed to sum up and concentrate the ingredients of a specific time and place . . . enlarged and inserted into a site in the city." He made London Knees as a sculptural reference to a number of influences that he thought characterized London in the 1960s: structures with columns and turrets, antismoking ads showing piles of cigarette butts, and the introduction of the miniskirt which, Oldenburg observed, accentuated "the architectural and fetishistic functions of knees" when paired with the "go-go" boots of the era.
As is the case with many of Oldenburg 's smaller sculptures, London Knees is a multiple: a three-dimensional object made in a limited edition. In seeking out the most desirable, yet typical, pair of legs to use as his model, the artist found a mannequin and sawed out the knees, only to discover that one of them seemed too "relaxed." He then had the knee he preferred cast in mirror image to form a life-sized pair (text excerpt from here).
9.7.15
Dancings in the Flanders, part II
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| Virske de Fluiter, Café Dancing Vilvoorde, Retroscoop |
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| Hertenhof, Bonheiden Mechelen, Putse Steenweg |
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| Dancings Metro, Blankenberge |
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| De Zweep, Oud-Turnhout |
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| Dancing Savannah, Bochelt |
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| Dancing Retroscoop, 1980, Hoogstraten |
From Dancings in Vlaanderen: Een historische tocht langsheen de dansgelegenheden van weleer
('Dancings in Flanders: A historical tour along yesterday's dance halls'). Link!
8.7.15
Herbert Vogel in blue painted wire by Richard Tuttle
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| 'Portrait of Herbert Vogel,' 1974 |
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| 'Titolo IV', 1978 |
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| 'Bit', 1965 |
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2.7.15
'Poor Richard' & 'Nixon eating a cookie' by Philip Guston
"Sometime during the summer of 1971, Philip Guston (1913-1980) began a visual narrative of Richard Nixon's life, a series of almost eighty drawings that caught one of America's most maligned politicians in a depraved, monstrous state. Titled Poor Richard, these caricatures play on the brooding, self-pitying character that Nixon exuded throughout his life. While much has been made in the ongoing interpretations of the radical content of Guston's late work of his brash betrayal of abstract painting and the New York School and his introduction of quirky, incongruous, cartoon-type figures and shapes around 1968-nothing quite approximates the mocking and satiric nature of these renderings of an American president. Their transgressive nature explains, perhaps, the deep ambivalence that Guston felt in pursuing his initial plan to publish the images as a book, and the reason they have remained almost wholly unknown to date. Like Guston's Poem-Pictures or the collaborations he effected with various writers during the last decade of his life, Poor Richard grew out of a friendship with a neighbor, Philip Roth, the novelist, who began living near Guston in Woodstock, New York, in 1969."
Excerpt from www.ubu.com/papers/balken_guston.html
You can browse through the book here: www.ubu.com/historical/guston/guston_nixon.html
1.7.15
Sirocco Heatwave
The first of July and the Sirocco is already shutting us down.
It makes me wondering how this Sahara Wind actually looks like...
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